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title: What use will it be,' I asked, 'to the mouse-king or to our whole mi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: What use will it be,' I asked, 'to the mouse-king or to our whole mighty kingdom that I have seen all these beautiful things? Who acts: promise, whole mighty kingdom. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, w
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 52

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What use will it be,' I asked, 'to the mouse-king or to our whole mighty kingdom that I have seen all these beautiful things?

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**Who acts:** promise, whole mighty kingdom · **What happens:** use, be, see · **To what, where:** beautiful things

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (promise, whole mighty kingdom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:179:52
# text = What use will it be,' I asked, 'to the mouse-king or to our whole mighty kingdom that I have seen all these beautiful things?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
20	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	det:predet	_	_
28	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
29	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | future | promise |  |  |  |  | to the mouse king or our whole mighty kingdom; ask *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | present · perfect | our whole mighty kingdom | all beautiful things |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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